Good article from a great blog

Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Cyn

This is the only arti­cle I’ve ever seen about online safety while job hunt­ing. It’s par­tic­u­larly rel­e­vant right now, too! Job Hunt­ing Safely Nowa­days, nearly every one I know and their mama is look­ing for a job. Job search­ing used to mean scan­ning the clas­si­fieds in your local paper, but these days your job search probably […]

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Which Behaviors Are Most Likely to Lead to Problems?

Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Cyn

A new study pub­lished in the Feb­ru­ary issue of Archives of Pedi­atrics & Ado­les­cent Med­i­cine has con­tra­dicted much of the com­mon advice given by inter­net safety author­i­ties. The behav­ior most likely to lead to vic­tim­iza­tion is not sim­ply shar­ing per­sonal infor­ma­tion online. Com­mu­ni­cat­ing with strangers is far more dan­ger­ous, espe­cially if the com­mu­ni­ca­tion is sexual. […]

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MySpace sued by (money-grubbing?) families of abused teens

Posted on January 18th, 2007 by Cyn

I don’t even like MySpace. Why do I find myself defend­ing the nasty thing? But here I am. I sup­pose this story has been spread far and wide now, fur­ther­ing the attempt to make MySpace respon­si­ble for every preda­tor who has ever set up shop on their servers. Four fam­i­lies have sued the pop­u­lar social-networking site […]

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